threat intelligence

  1. CVE-2025-30397: Critical Zero-Day Exploited in Windows Legacy Scripting Engine

    In the rapidly shifting landscape of Windows security, the spotlight once again falls on Microsoft’s legacy components—this time, the Microsoft Scripting Engine. As of the May 2025 Patch Tuesday release, Microsoft confirmed that CVE-2025-30397, a major zero-day vulnerability in its Scripting...
  2. Enhancing Vulnerability Management with Flashpoint’s Critical Insights and IoT Security Strategies

    As cyber threats continue their relentless evolution, organizations face mounting pressure to strengthen their vulnerability management strategies. In today’s interconnected digital landscape, overlooking a single critical flaw can cascade into costly breaches, reputational harm, and operational...
  3. Pure Crypter and Windows 11 24H2: The Evolving Malware Evasion Arms Race

    The cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, with malware creators and defenders locked in a relentless contest of innovation. Nowhere is this battle more apparent than in the dynamic interplay between cutting-edge malware packaging tools and the latest operating...
  4. Top Microsoft 365 Security Threats in 2025 & How to Mitigate Them

    As cyber threats targeting Microsoft 365 continue to evolve, understanding and mitigating these risks is paramount for organizations relying on this platform. The recent "Microsoft 365 Security Roundup: Top 5 Threats in 2025" summit highlighted the most pressing security challenges and provided...
  5. Defending Modern Enterprises Against Evolving Identity-Centric Cyber Threats

    In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity, enterprises face an adaptable and relentless adversary: the identity-focused attacker. As organizations increasingly move to the cloud, adopt modern authentication, and enforce multifactor authentication (MFA), the techniques used by...
  6. Understanding and Protecting Against CVE-2025-24071 Windows File Explorer Vulnerability

    The recent disclosure of vulnerability CVE-2025-24071 in Microsoft’s Windows File Explorer serves as a stark reminder of how legacy systems and seemingly innocuous user actions can become the gateway to significant cyber threats. Affecting Windows 11 (23H2) and earlier versions that support...
  7. Commvault Metallic Cloud Backup Breach Highlights SaaS Security Risks & Best Practices

    As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, organizations increasingly rely on software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for essential operations such as cloud-based data backup and disaster recovery. However, with this shift comes new and complex threats—highlighted by the US Cybersecurity...
  8. Comprehensive Guide to SIEM and SOAR Platforms for Modern Cybersecurity Defense

    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms have become pillars of modern organizational defense strategies, serving as focal points for both comprehensive incident detection and coordinated response. As cyber threats...
  9. May 2025 Windows Security Patch Tuesday: Critical Zero-Days & Active Exploits

    May’s Patch Tuesday from Microsoft has sent ripples through the Windows ecosystem once again, as the tech titan rolled out a crucial series of security updates addressing no fewer than five actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. While Patch Tuesday is a familiar ritual for IT...
  10. Void Blizzard: Russia-Linked Cyber Espionage Threat Targeting Critical Infrastructure

    The emergence of Void Blizzard—a newly identified, Russian-affiliated threat actor—has sent ripples of concern through cybersecurity communities, government agencies, and critical infrastructure operators worldwide. According to detailed findings published by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, Void...
  11. Commvault SaaS Breach Highlights Supply Chain Risks in Cloud Data Protection

    The sudden exposure of key Commvault infrastructure has ignited urgent concern among SaaS providers and cybersecurity professionals alike, highlighting an increasingly complex threat landscape for cloud-based data protection platforms. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
  12. NPM Supply Chain Attack: How Malicious Packages Harvest Data & Threaten DevOps Security

    Amid growing concerns over open-source software security, a recent campaign targeting the npm ecosystem has underscored the persistent vulnerabilities in modern development pipelines. According to research by Socket’s Threat Research Team, a coordinated attack has seen at least 60 malicious npm...
  13. Future of Cybersecurity: Strategic Partnerships, AI, & Resilience in APAC

    In a rapidly changing digital world where threats evolve at breakneck speed, the importance of predictive, adaptive, and comprehensive cybersecurity has never been more apparent. This urgency was on full display at a recent, exclusive event in Singapore jointly hosted by MillenniumIT ESP...
  14. Smart App Control in Windows 11: The Future of Proactive Cybersecurity

    Windows 11 has continuously evolved since its initial release, responding to both end-user demands and the changing threat landscape in the world of cybersecurity. Among the recent headline features, Smart App Control stands out as a bold step forward in Microsoft's effort to block malicious or...
  15. Windows 11 22H2 Smart App Control: The Future of Proactive Security

    With the release of Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has dramatically shifted its security playbook by introducing Smart App Control (SAC), a proactive, cloud-backed security layer that blocks untrusted software before it ever gets a chance to execute. It’s a bold new defense in the Windows security...
  16. SaaS Security Alert: Nation-State Breach Highlights Risks & Defense Strategies

    A recent surge in cyber campaigns is drawing heightened attention to the security of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, with Commvault—one of the leading enterprise data protection providers—at the center of a nation-state level breach. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...
  17. AI-Generated Social Media Scams Threaten Windows 11 Users with Malicious Tutorials

    The rise of AI-powered content on social platforms has converged with a new wave of cybercrime strategies, threatening even the most security-conscious Windows 11 users with sophisticated social engineering tactics that sidestep legacy protections. This development is not only a technical...
  18. CISA Adds Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server Vulnerability CVE-2025-4632 to KEV Catalog — Urgent Patching Needed

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has intensified its ongoing campaign to combat cyber threats by adding a new entry—CVE-2025-4632, a Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server Path Traversal Vulnerability—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. This catalog...
  19. Microsoft Dismantles Lumma Stealer Malware Infrastructure to Combat Global Cyber Threats

    In a significant move against cybercrime, Microsoft has taken decisive legal action to dismantle the infrastructure of Lumma Stealer, a sophisticated malware that has infected approximately 400,000 Windows computers worldwide over the past two months. This operation underscores the escalating...
  20. Lumma Malware Takedown: How Microsoft and Global Agencies Combat Cybercrime Threats

    The global scale and sophistication of cybercrime reached new heights with the recent crackdown on the notorious Lumma malware network, as revealed by Microsoft in partnership with law enforcement agencies worldwide. For many Windows users and enterprises, this revelation isn’t just another...